• TheFogan@programming.dev
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    21 days ago

    Currious also, I think a lot of people are forgetting… in 1946, the superman radio show actually had a 16 episode plot called “the clan of the firey cross”, in which superman is protecting a Chinese american family, from a clan of evil doers in white hoods. Not only was the group an unsubtle reference to the KKK, but thanks to a mole in the KKK named Stetson Kennedy, it even used real world up to date for the time secret code words from the actual KKK.

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    21 days ago

    You know your society is psychologically burnt to a crisp when positive values and empathy can’t even be “pushed” through fiction, lol.

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    21 days ago

    What changed is that right-wingers managed to convince people that Lex Luthor is not a villain but an aspirational figure.

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    Just saw it, it was a really solid Superman movie. Superman did Superman things against Lex Luthor and acted as Superman acts since his inception.

    Somehow this has people upset.

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      I went in expecting it to be awful, but it might be my new favorite Superman movie. I really enjoyed it.

      I think the only issue was it was just 2 hours so all the things could only be touched on. But for those 2hrs I’d say it was executed quite well.

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    I enjoyed the movie.

    If being kind to others is too woke, so be it. But the people who believe that can fuck right off.

    I look forward to a day when I can stare one of them in the face, have them ask me for some sort of help or support, and then I tell them to fuck off.

    Because I’m not Superman.